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BOTTLE=CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,102, dated October 30, 1888.

Serial No. 272,909. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

-Be it known that I, WALTER D. Bu'rz, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of N orristown, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- Vania, have invented certain Improvements in Bottle-Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a device for thoroughly and quickly cleaning bottles, my invention being designed especially for cleaning nursing-bottles and nipples connected thereto, and to so construct the device that it will be at all times ready for use and can be hung up when not in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the cleaner in a bottle. Fig. 2 is a side view of the cleaner. Fig. 3 is a view of the cleaner applied to the mouth of a wide-necked bottle. Fig. 4. is a view showing the cleaner applied to the mouth of a narrow-necked bottle, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cleaner used in connection with the nipple.

In cleaning bottles the common plan is to use shot or similar material and shake the shot in the bottle with a quantity of water. This is the most thorough way of cleaning bottles, although brushes have been devised for the same purpose. The great difficulty in using a brush is that the corners of the bottle, especially square bottles, cannot be reached by the brush, and consequently remain dirty, and as nursing-bottles particularly have to be kept clean at all times, it is essential that every portion of the bottle should be cleaned. When shot is used, it is loose, and consequently has to be kept in a separate receptacle, and care must be taken when the water is poured out of the bottle, after cleaning, to prevent the shot from running out with the water. I overcome these difficulties by providing a device which is at all times ready for use and can be hung up when not in use.

Referring to the drawings, A is a cork, tapered, as shown, to fit a very small-mouthed bottle or one with a very large mouth. Passing through this cork is a wire, B, having a loop, a, at the lower end, to which is attached a chain,D. This chain is of suitable length, and to the end of the chain is attached a ring, cl, having a series of pendent chains, 0, pref erably of different lengths, so that they will lie close to the chain in being passed through the neck of the bottle. The upper end of the wire B is turned, as shown, forming an eye, I), by which the device can be hung up;and projecting above the cork, and on the same piece of wire, is a brush, E, made of any suitable material, and preferably of the shape of a nipple, F, as shown in Fig. 5, so that when cleaning nursing-bottles, by revolving the brush in the nipple or the nipple on the brush, the nipple can be thoroughly cleansed.

-The operation of the device is as follows: The chain is inserted in the bottle, a quantity of water is poured in, and the cork is forced into the mouth of the bottle until it fits snugly therein. The bottle is then shaken, as shown in Fig. 1, the chain coming in contact with every portion of the interior of the bottle and thoroughly rubbing off any matter that may be clinging thereto, after which the chain is removed with the cork and hung up in any suitable place for further use. Thus it will be seen that no difficulties arise, as the chain is removed before the water is poured out of the bottle, and, the chain being flexible to the under side of the cork, the thorough cleansing of the bottle is insured.

In Fig. 3 I have shown the cork applied to awidemouthed bottle, and in Fig. i Ihave shown the cork applied to a narrow-mouthed bottle.

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the tapered cork with sections of chains depending therefrom, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the cork with sections of chains depending therefrom, and a brush, substantially as shown, extending from the opposite end of the cork, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the tapered cork, the wire B, extending throughout the length of the cork and having an eye to which is attachedachain, and sections of chains connected thereto with an eye at the opposite end of the wire, said wire forming the stock of a brush, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

WATJTER D. BUTZ.

Witnesses:

EDWARD M. RILEY, HENRY HowsoN.

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